in the last decade, we lost 6 million manufacturing jobs in the united states. once you lose those jobs come and trust me, engineering, product development, technology skills, they leave the country. third point is some good news. since the end of the recession come in manufacturing has gained back 526,000 jobs. not enough to make up the loss, but significant change. there are trends out there right now, there is a wages in china, showed us revolution, beginning of reassuring the production facilities, disruptive technology, 3-d imaging, digital fabrication that gives us a sense this is not a blip, but the beginning of something big. so here's the question we have for ourselves and for the country. these are essentially the topics in yesterdays paper that will be the topic of some of our conversation today. how do we begin to drive collaboration between our major companies, universities, specialized firms so we can crack the code on product and process innovation as they do in germany. so we've recommended a series of advanced innovation hubs, not eric's and sav